OK, using that convention, how would I create help for <arg1>, <arg2>, etc.
Thanks. On 9/27/2006 12:44 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> usage: DelimTOFixedWidth.py <input filename> <output filename> [options] > > That's not the command-line argument style that optparse models. It > should be: > > command_name [options] <arg1> <arg2> > > In other words, the options (optionally) appear before the non-option > arguments. This is the convention followed by most command-line tools, > and it's what users expect. > > There are other command-line parser modules (e.g. argparse), perhaps > you can look to them for different functionality. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
